The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-04-08
SOUTHERN eL.EANlNGs.


died few days ago. He was appinted by
President Cleveland. Already there are
four or five candidates foE ia office.
A plowman on a farm near AtlaL Ia, Ga,
q few days since, turned up s1,10) in gold,
supposed to have been buried during the
war.
Mr.. John Green, aged eighty-four, and
one of the Oldest, if not the oldest, citizens
of BibO County, Ga. is said to be at the
point of death.
Two prominent lawyers of Newberry,
s. c., exchanged nine shots in crowded
courtroom a few days since, one Of them
being fatally wounded.
The cotton mills of the West Point (Ga.)
Manufacturing Company were totally
consumed by fire few nights ago. The
loss is S2O0,0J0; insurance, SI5l l,000.
The Raleigh, IN c. CottOnseed Oil
mills and fertilizer factory were burned q
few days ago. Loss SD 900; insurance
$4,000. The fire was probably accidental
The Tennessee Senate has passed a bill
to require railroad companies to establish
comfortable waiting rooms at all stations
where tickets are sold, the act to take ef-
feet six months after passage.
During a heavy thund er-storm which
swept over Florid a, few nights ago, the
lightning set fire to stOrein Internachen
a little town about fifteen miles south of
Jacksonville Before the fire was gotten
under control two of the largest stores in
the place were destroyed; also, two pri-
vate residences and one Office, causing a
loss of fully $1,000.
Cattle in the Texas drought district are
reported perishing for water.
A one-hundred- and -twO-year old woman
in ROckdale County Ga, can thread a
needle as easily as any one, and walks
five miles d " regularly
There is a farm one hundred miles long
and one hundred miles wide in LOUISIANA.
It cost so, 900 to fence it.
A great chicken main is arranged 10
take place at Parkersburg, Va, durin z
the Easter holidays. About two hundrc
battles will be fought.
A. NJ. Smith, lawyer Of Calvert; Tex,
was fOuIly murdesed while blowing in
his field a few days ago, by some unknown
person.
A potato crop disease, called the
''bhght,' has broken out in Louisiana, and
is doing great damage.
Fears are expressed in the South that
the fruit crop has been injured by recent
frosts, and already experts are givin g
varied and differing testimony in the mat
ter.
Captain c. Z. Dutton, Of the Geological
Survey, in studying upon the Charleston
earthquake, ascertaned that the waves
Travelled between four thousand and five
thousand meters per second.
A man with a wonderful beard
has been attracting attention in
Runnels County Tex. 1t Is alleged
that he ties it about his neck for a
muf11 sr, uses it as a chest-protector, and
Gu is up under it at night instead of using
blankets.
Mrs. John Kennedy, of Louisville, KY,
has just been committed to an ms aTe
asylum for entertaining the strange hal
two children have been spirited away and
others substituted in their stead.
A fire at Columbus, Ga, a few days
ago, destroyed the shoe store of W. r.
Bedell and the clothing store of J. K. Har.
ris & Co. BedelFs loss is Sl1,O)O; insur-
ance, $1,000. Harris & Co.'s loss Is SIS, 900;
insurance, $4,000 The dry goods store of
J. a. Kirven & Co. was slightly damaged
by smoke and water. Loss covered by in
surance.
Near Beulah Miss, a few evenings
since, W. L. Lowe, member Of the Leg
islature from Bolivar County, shot Char
lie Yaman several times, from the result
Of which Yaman died three hours after
ward AS far as can be learned the diff
Guilty arose through Yamln's intimacy
with loves wife.
Betsy Cook, colored, living a few miles
from Brookhaven, Miss, went to a field
to work Il few days ago, leaving 2 her
three small children to take care of THEN
house Oa her return she found the house
in ashes and her three children burned to
death.
Mother Sympporas, of the Sisters OF
LOrette, was buried at Montgomery, Ala,
few days ago She had been for several
years Mother Superior of the Roman Cath
OliC convent there, and was greatly beloved
/ by the whole community. She was born
/ at Lorette, Ky, forty-fve years ago, OF
parents named Warren, and dedicated
/ her life to the sisterhood at the &c of fif-
! teen.
A jury at Dlingerfield, Tex, in the case
/ of Mrs. Culberson against the East Limo
/ railroad. branch of the Missouri Pacific
/ for damages for killing her hus band, a
] cOnduc or on that road, brought in a YER
! dict assessing the damages at $4,000
/ Sc, COZ for the support of herself and 81 ,OOC
! each for the support of her two little chill
! dreu.
! Tarleton Steel, colored. killed his wife
/ with an AK few days ago, near Ada,
/ Ala, in a dispute. He then took her
! body into the woods about a mile inland,
/ piled brush on it and poured kerosene
! over il and burned the body The negro
/ was jailed and confesses the CRIME
/ The Kentucky Court of Appeals has
/ Overruled the petition for a hearing in the
/ ease of John j. COrnelson VS. COmmo1,
t
/ TO evade the punishment ecreed against
| him for assaulting with cowhide Judge
] Richard Reid, in Mount Sterling, in May,
| 1854.
! The pro spects for the peach crop in
| Kentucky are good; also for other fruits
! othe extent of their culture.
| Fruit raisers in Louisiana are sanguine
as to the pros poets for good crops. Early
! vegetables are in excellent condition.
Reports from various portions of Mis-.
/ sissippI give good promise for abundant
! crops of all kinds of fruits in the absence
| Of future adverse conditions.
Tennessee correspondents agree on the
! good prospCct for the coming peach croT,
/ and in locations where small fruits are
/ given attention large returns are looked
/ for Much attention IS being paid in some
/ sections to tomato culture.
Late frosts have materially lessened the
| truck gardeners prospects IN Alabama.
/ and the season viii be, as a rule an uu-
/ profitable one. Fruits promise only a
4 moderate return.
] Ice factories are preparing for business
/ a syndicate of Cincinnati capitalists has
/ Just purchased the Sod Iy Coal Company
/ property in Hamilton County, Tenl., com
/ prisiug more than 5000 acres Of mineral
and farming lands. The price paid is not
/ known. but II is understood to have been
nearly half a million dollars. Z. 4 INNER
man, the president Of the Cincinnati
Hamilton q Dayton Railroad Company, is
one Of the principal stockholders.
| The a.-estate transfers at Louisville
/ Ky last we el1 amounted 10 81, 22l,0)o. and
/ the recorders clerks we-e two weeks
/ behind in their work. Il is fifteen years
/ since a similar movement in real property
! was experienced
An immense nail factory and rolling
mill is to be established at Selma, Ala.
/ The sp ecial committee appointed by the